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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 01, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mahmoud Farhadiroushan, London, GB;
Tom Richard Parker, Tiverton, GB;
Assignee:
Sensornet Limited, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/00 ; G01J 1/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/00 ; G01J 1/04 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for measuring the temperature and strain within a structure consists in having optical fibres incorporated in the structure, passing pulses of light down the fibre and detecting the backscattered light.